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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VengerSatanis" data-source="post: 6317995" data-attributes="member: 6750576">Like a board game in that you pick it up and start playing.  Yeah, I like that idea.  It's just... well, it was just a surprise is all.  Maybe if the 5e team had done a better job of managing expectations and said something like, "The free online Basic version of D&D won't have as much newfangled stuff as the PHB and DMG, but it will have a few feats and powers and skills.  Those who prefer old school D&D will be able to use those Advanced books to tweak their game either back to something more OSR compatible or forward into 3/4e territory."That would have explained things and given everyone an idea of where we'd be mid-July.  Maybe someone else can find a quote that resembles the above, but I can't remember reading anything quite like that and I was reading all the L&L articles, excerpts, interviews, etc.At the end of the day, it's not a deal breaker for me... I just didn't like being told one thing and shown something different.VS</blockquote>